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Ma Jian Quotes

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: chinese
Birth: August 18, 1953

Topics

Fear People Understand Chinese How

Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.

People Growing Up Chaos Face Poverty

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

Argument Nothing Prove Lighten

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

People World Army Violence System

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.

Music People Feel You Say Why

I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.

Family Alone Death Brother Never

Sometimes, you know - I think, with a lot of things, at the time, everything is extremely upsetting, and then you look back on it, and it actually can be sort of funny.

Funny Time Think You Look Back

We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.

God Mask True Spirit Human Within

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

Peace Long Security Sound Point Far

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

Success Knowledge Best Long Nothing

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Think I Think Personalities Addictive

Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need.

Me Voice Thinking Language Feel Go

Then the early punk rock period with Television and the Ramones. That's what I loved- that's what I was listening to immediately prior to when I started to play.

Listening Loved Early Play Rock

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